Editing Maximum likelihood estimation (section)

=== Other estimation methods ===
* [[Generalized method of moments]]: methods related to the likelihood equation in maximum likelihood estimation
* [[M-estimator]]: an approach used in robust statistics
* [[Maximum a posteriori]] (MAP) estimator: for a contrast in the way to calculate estimators when prior knowledge is postulated
* [[Maximum spacing estimation]]: a related method that is more robust in many situations
* [[Principle of maximum entropy|Maximum entropy estimation]]
* [[Method of moments (statistics)]]: another popular method for finding parameters of distributions
* [[Method of support]], a variation of the maximum likelihood technique
* [[Minimum-distance estimation]]
* [[Partial likelihood methods for panel data]]
* [[Quasi-maximum likelihood]] estimator: an MLE estimator that is misspecified, but still consistent
* [[Restricted maximum likelihood]]: a variation using a likelihood function calculated from a transformed set of data